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 Rabizbhai Foda

Phone: (905) 813-9372
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Will provide advice in following areas:
Self-Assessment / General steps to starting a biz.
Organize- Workplace/Systems/Forms/Staff.
Hiring - Delegate non-essential functions.

Rabiz is a Registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Manitoba and a social entrepreneur. Presently at Hydro One, earlier with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Director of Transmission at Electricity of Western Region, Saudi Arabia, Tata Electric Companies, India. His professional affiliations include CIGRE, IEEE, IET, PMI, Society of Power Engineers; published papers at conferences.

His current activities are as a Lieutenant Governor’s Appointee to the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, Ministry of Health, Government of Ontario, Canada; Member of the Experience Requirements Committee, Professional Engineers Ontario. For Canada-India Science & Technology initiatives, he developed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between McMaster University, York University, University of Waterloo, Canada and IITs at Bombay, Kanpur and Madras; formalized during Premier McGuinty’s visit to India. Member of the working group that led to published reports “Building Bridges – A Case Study on the Role of the Indian Diaspora in Canada” by the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Policy Studies at Queens University, Canada; and “Institutional Linkages: Academic/Government / Private Partnerships (Canada India S&T Mapping Study)” – for the Government of Canada.

He was President, VP, General Secretary, Treasurer - IIT Alumni Canada Inc. As Program Chair of IIT-Bombay’s Golden Jubilee Conference, New York, the team raised $7M for advancement in technology education. An editor of “PiTech”, a technology review magazine of the Indian Institutes of Technology, and partnering with MIT’s Technology Review.
Rabiz established partnership of IITAC with TRIEC (Toronto Regional Immigrant and Employment Council), for a well structured mentoring program for the benefit of new immigrants in Canada. TRIEC appointed Rabiz on their “Circle of Champions”, Leadership Network at Maytree Foundation.
Chair, North American Regional Conference, Canada with the theme “Knowledge and Skills Creating Values beyond Borders”, attended by delegates from several countries. His profile in the “Globe and Mail” and in special supplement on Professional Engineers Ontario, by the Globe and Mail, Canada, The Times of India, The Financial Express, India are notable media coverage.

Rabiz led the Burhani Professional Day program in Toronto, 2008. Earlier Rabiz served as a Member of Executive Committee, India Forum, Embassy of India, Saudi Arabia, Director, “Panorama India” - Consulate General of India, Toronto.

A recipient of “Distinguished Alumni” service Award – IIT Bombay; The Mentoring Partnership, Toronto awards. Biography is published in Who’s Who in the World, in Science and Engineering, in Finance and Industry, in America – Marquis Who’s Who Publications; and has had several appearances in TV interviews, Mississauga City Council, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, etc.